AUSA 2011: Meprolight reveal uncooled sighting systems
Israeli company Meprolight and its sister company Pulse Inteco have revealed two new products to add to their families of uncooled sights and laser rangefinders.
Speaking to Shephard at the AUSA conference in Washington, DC on 11 October, Benny Kokia, director of sales and marketing at Meprolight said the company is set to launch the Dual-Field uncooled sighting system to add to its Noa family of sights, that consists of three other systems, next week.
All information required by the user can be downloaded onto the night operation sight through a USB stick, and there are ten 'scripts' that can
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